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The civil disobedience campaign dubbed “Moral Monday” made its way to St. Louis University today, where protesters continued to speak out against the killing of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and that of Vonderitt Myers Jr. in St. Louis earlier this month.

Attendees said these men’s lives were “cut short by police brutality and systemic racism.”

The Washington Post reports:

Chanting “hands up, don’t shoot,” marchers headed toward St. Louis University. University security and police officers tried to stop the protest from entering the campus.

“I am a student, I have my ID, and I have a lot of guests,” a protest leader said into the megaphone.

On SLU’s campus Monday morning, protest leaders addressed the crowd. They said their demonstration was about ending white supremacy and addressing systemic problems people face regardless of race.

“This is the real definition of resistance … this thing right here that we’re doing right now is not only a symbolism of what we can do when we stick together, this is … It’s the beginning in a change in our consciousness as a people, as a human race,” Dhoruba Shakur said.

They noted the significance of it being Columbus Day, calling him “the first looter” and saying they were “reclaiming” the college campus. “I know this was a college a couple of hours ago, but as of right now this is our spot and we not going nowhere,” a protest leader said.

Former Princeton professor Cornel West was among the protesters who were arrested:

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